set/change volume

[birty]

set and change volume both seem to set the volume to a specific amount, how can i increase or decrease the volume like you could in girder 3 or is this a bug?

[Promixis]

do you mean from lua?

[birty]

no using the girder volume controls from the actions list

[Ron]

Change volume *should* have done that. Fixing it now.

[birty]

using alpha 3 any use of the volume set/change functions causes a memory read error

[Ron]

Hmm, that was not the intended result :-) I will investigate later today.

[Ron]

Quickly looking at it here reveals no error. Can you send me the GML with only this action in it? What sound card do you have?

[birty]

i am using an SB Audigy platinum

[Ron]

This is going to be tricky. It works fine for me.... let me see what I can do here.

[birty]

there are two audio devices on my pc if that would be the cause? (the second is a bluetooth audio device)

[Ron]

I don't know I am looking into the other bug first then I'll get back to this one.

[Ron]

Did it work without crashing before?

[birty]

yes both in v3 and alpha 2 (although with the incorrect functionality)

[Ron]

Can you try to use "display volume osd" for me? I am suspecting a bug in the GetVolume routine and "display volume osd" uses it.

[birty]

yes that crashes too

[Ron]

okay we are getting closer...

[Ron]

Could you replace girder.exe and girder.dll with the files supplied below. I want to see if we can trace this error with MadExcept.

[Ron]

thx alan.

[birty]

email has been sent, do you want me to post a copy of the report here?

[Ron]

Nope I am already on it. This madexcept library is pretty nice!

[Rob H]

I wouldn't leave home without it :)

[Ron]

The problem seems to be in the luavolume library (which madexcept doesn't handle) so we are going to have to do some manual debugging.

I have added a popup box to one of the functions. Try to run the offending function again and can you tell me what it says?

Thanks!!

[birty]

no message is shown

[Ron]

hmm... hang on...

[Ron]

Let's try that again.

[birty]

still nothing

[Ron]

*grumbl*

[Ron]

Okay another try then. (thanks for your patience!!)

[birty]

nope nothing

[Ron]

The bug report is showing that you are still running version 1.0.0.8 of the volume plugin, the version that I sent is version 1.0.0.9. Can you verify that the dll is the correct one?
According to the bug report the loaded dll is in the

D:\Program Files\girder4\plugins

directory.

[Ron]

Don't look at the girder settings dialog for the version, use the explorer and get the properties to check the version. ( The version displayed in the girder settings window is not updated yet, sorry about that).

[birty]

yes it is 1.0.0.9 and i just made another report which also shows the version as 1.0.0.9

[Ron]

Thanks Alan. You are still using the same gml as you sent me before?

Also please replace Girder.dll with the attached one.

[birty]

yes the same gml, still no messages

[Ron]

Now this is frustrating!

[birty]

hmm, i know the feeling, ive spent ages tracing a bug before that someone else was having and i coldnt reproduce, turned out to be stupidly simple

[Ron]

Something is telling me this one falls in that cat. You know how to see OutputDebugString messages?

[birty]

no, but if you tell me ill do it

[Ron]

Download

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/debugview.shtml

Run the executable in there. Then run Girder. All Debug output that any app on your system is generating will end up in that nice app. Girder *SHOULD* send some stuff when you trigger that node.

[birty]

sorry, all it gets is file open, girder open, girder enable, when its starts, i think madexcept is blocking the rest from reaching debugview

[Rob H]

Sounds like you could use CodeSite, Ron. Much better than OutputDebugString

www.raize.com

[birty]

if you could send me a small section of the source code i can try and step through it in delphi

[Ron]

Alan you forgot to replace the girder.dll attached in the post above.

[birty]

sorry

[birty]

heres the output
00000000 0.00000000 [5380] FileLoaded
00000001 0.01538352 [5380] GirderOpen
00000002 0.04080239 [5380] GirderEnable
00000003 4.11026625 [5380] Address only0:0:-1:0;-1
00000004 4.33940878 [5380] Address: 0:0:-1:0;-1 AD: 0:0:-1:0

[Ron]

Did it crash? There might have been a popup that didn't come to the foreground.

[birty]

yes it did, still no popup

[Ron]

I am getting visitors in 30 minutes and I am cooking dinner so we are going to have to continue this tomorrow :( Thanks for your help so far!!

[Ron]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. The access error happens in a function that doesn't do a whole lot and on both machines here it seems to work.

Please test the "display volume osd" action with the master channel, while using this dll. Note it is NOT supposed to display the correct volume, I simply commented out all code but kept the function call there. No popup should happen, I am just going for no crash here.

Please log all debugstring output use the girder.dll that I gave you before.

THANKS!!

[birty]

it still crashes and there is no popup here is the debuggin output
[3512] Address only0:0:-1:0;-1
[3512] Address: 0:0:-1:0;-1 AD: 0:0:-1:0

[Ron]

???

Now that is the strangest thing. The function that I am calling is empty and statically linked into Girder...


int WINAPI StringToAddress(char *StrAddr, int *Dev, int *Dest, int *Src, int *Ctrl)
{
OutputDebugString("We are now inside LuaVolume.");
return 0;
}

I'll have to think very hard about this one... If anyone has any idea why this is failing, but only on Alan's machine I am all ears.

[Ron]

Okay, now I have totally cut out the function in girder.dll that was causing the problem according to MadExcept, let's see if you can run display volume OSD without crashing...

[Ron]

Does your CPU have NX support?

[birty]

yes that one works, no it doesnt its an amd xp 2000

[Ron]

hallelujah, amen.

[Ron]

Okay small steps now. Please try this one with the display volume osd action.

[birty]

that works too,
[3176] frame missing this frame = 98, prev = 89

is displayed in the debuggin though when girder starts.. (it didnt before)

[Ron]

I think that is not from Girder :-) This debugging tool logs every app running. Thanks though.

[Ron]

Okay, now I have put the offending function back... Please use the luavolume that I sent last and the girder.dll attached below.

[birty]

attched below??

[Ron]

reload :-)

[birty]

yep have done, that one crashes :(

[Ron]

That is absolutely amazing. Do you have any other crashes in the volume handling? I have one AMD machine here, I am going to give this a try there right now.

[birty]

yes all the volume functions crash, none dis in alpha 2 though and ive been using v3 for ages with no problems

[Ron]

Does set volume crash too? Could you send me a bug report of that?

[birty]

yep, report sent

[birty]

that version works perfectly

[Ron]

You are kidding me! #$%^#$! armadillo.

[Ron]

Could you please replace all files attached below. These have Armadillo enabled again, but with the lowest protection options. These files should work as normal, all debug stuff has been removed.

[birty]

yes those crash too

[Ron]

nooooooooooooooooo!

[Ron]

Okay, even less protection options.

[birty]

that crashes too, could it be a problem with anti virus?

[Ron]

That could be, did you try unload that?

[birty]

hmm, im not really sure how, i stopped the virus services and killed all the executables i could find in the task manager (im using avg 7 free edition)

[Ron]

After stopping all those apps. did girder4 work?

[birty]

nope

[Ron]

:cry:

[Ron]

Okay, last thing I can think of before I have to start bugging the Armadillo people. please replace the dll below.

[birty]

yep that crashes too

[Ron]

Thanks for your help, I am going to email the Armadillo people to get this sorted out or we are going to have to pull armadillo :(

[Ron]

I got a reply for the Armadillo people. They sent me a new version of their system and asked if the bug is gone. Alan could you test this again for us?

[birty]

it works!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Ron]

Well I be *** Great news!!!!! I'll let those guys know right away.

[Ron]

Alan thanks for testing this soooo many many times and doing it fast too!! You are in the UK right? I was surprise how long you held on yesterday, considering it was getting quite late for you.

[birty]

i was watching the negotiator which didnt finish till 23:40 and i didn't have a lecture till 10 this morning so it wasnt so bad